On March 25th, eight teams from Okaloosa and Walton County participated in the 2nd FLL Jr Expo this season. Striving for Perfection was awarded the FIRST Foundation grant for WeDo 2.0 kits and initial registration fees. The City of Fort Walton Beach donated toward event fees and volunteered as coaches and reviewers along with others from the community. Space for more teams are available for the next Expo on June 24th at Striving for Perfection. Six training sessions are available from March 28 – April 2nd. Contact rick.soria@doolittleinstitute.org or beth.hanning@doolittleinstitute.org for more… Read More

On March 9th the first FLL Jr Expo of the season was hosted at Walker Elementary School. Students in grades K-4 demonstrated their motorized LEGO model, displayed their tri-fold posters, and answered questions about how they created their project. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 2556, the RadioActive Roaches robotics team from Niceville High School demonstrated their competition robot which picks up balls and shoots them in the air.

Teachers from several counties gathered at the George T McCutchan Airport on Saturday March 25th to do stem activities and attend workshops. General McCutchan invited the group back on Sunday, February 26 to fly in World War II planes.

FLL Coaches! STEM Day at the Capitol Save the Date! Doolittle Institute will be reserving some team booths at the STEM Day at the Capitol event this year. FIRST® presence at this event is always the highlight. – Note from Terri Willingham: STEM Day at the Capitol, Tallahassee – April 11 – hosted by Orlando Science Center – This is a great opportunity to get front and center of your legislators, and to help us keep the state funding support going. If you would like to participate by bringing your team in… Read More

The top 16 teams out of 48 teams in the region competed in the FIRST LEGO League Florida Northwest Regional Championship on Saturday, February 18th. The Tournament Champions, winning a bid to State and World Festival, were team 6351 Rockin’ Robotics, from Bob Sikes Elementary! Also winning bids to the State Competition in Lakeland, Florida are: 3735 STEMM Stingers 8885 DMS Bricklayers 18690 Turtle Robotics 8882 Pantherbotz 3748 STEMM Swarm 25105 The TLRC Cool Team 8885 DMS Bricklayers had the top Robot Performance score of 167. Team 3735 STEMM Stingers were the… Read More